Attending to the centrality of indigeneity, race, and colonialism in kinship, the contributors to this volume assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory.

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: Kincoherence/Kin-aesthetics/Kinematics / Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman  1
Queering Linages
1. Kinship beyond the Bloodline / Judith Butler  25
2. The Mixed-Race Child Is Queer Father to the Man / Brigitte Fielder  48
3. World Making: Family, Time, and Memory among Trans Mothers and Daughters in Istanbul / Dilara Çali¿kan  71
Kinship, State, Empire
4. In Good Relations: Native Adoption, Kinstillations, and the Grounding of Memory / Joseph M. Pierce  95
5. Queering the Womb: Surrogacy and the Economics of Reproductive Feeling / Poulomi Saha  119
6. Beyond Family: Kinship’s Past, Queer World Making, and the Question of Governance / Mark Rifkin  138
7. Ecstatic Kinship and Trans Interiority in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet / Aqdas Aftab  159
8. Marielle, Presente: The Present and Presence in Marielle Franco Protests / Juliana DeMartini Brito  180
Kinship in the Negative
9. Akinship / Christopher Chamberlin  203
10. Against Friendship / Leah Claire Allen and John S. Garrison  227
11. Kidless Lit: Childlessness and Minor Kinship Forms / Natasha Hurley  248
12. Till Death Do Us Kin: Sworn Kinship and Queer Martydom in Chinese Anti-imperial Struggles / Aobo Dong  269
Epilogue. How Did It Come to This? Talking Kinship with Kath Weston / Kath Weston, Elizabeth Freeman, and Tyler Bradway  291
References  303
Contributors  333
Index  339

Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman, editors